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I have some shared preferences (latitude, longitude) that I want to access from a service, that is not subclassed from Activity. In particular, when I try to access getPreferences, this function doesn't exist's on a service. My code is posted below My goal here is to allow WRITE these shared preferences with my service. Any suggestions/examples that can help me along? public class MyService extends Service implements Runnable { LocationManager mLocationManager; Location mLocation; MyLocationListener mLocationListener; Location currentLocation = null; static SharedPreferences settings; static SharedPreferences.Editor configEditor; public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) { return null; } public void onCreate() { settings = this.getPreferences(MODE_WORLD_WRITEABLE); configEditor = settings.edit(); writeSignalGPS(); } private void setCurrentLocation(Location loc) { currentLocation = loc; } private void writeSignalGPS() { Thread thread = new Thread(this); thread.start(); } @Override public void run() { mLocationManager = (LocationManager)getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE); if (mLocationManager.isProviderEnabled(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER)) { Looper.prepare(); mLocationListener = new MyLocationListener(); mLocationManager.requestLocationUpdates( LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 1000, 0, mLocationListener); Looper.loop(); //Looper.myLooper().quit(); } else { Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), getResources().getString(R.string.gps_signal_not_found), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); } } private Handler handler = new Handler() { @Override public void handleMessage(Message msg) { if (currentLocation!=null) { configEditor.putStr

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